Home again! Jiggity!!! Jig!!!

Oh, it's good to be home! So good. Eating out is great, but gets old when you can't have just a liiiiiiittle bit of something, when you have to walk a half-mile in the cold back to the hotel every night after eating, and when you run out of "special!" restaurants, and have to start visiting them the second time! SAD! I'm SUCH a wimp! Doing hair in the humidity of Florida is really a stretch too! -- We'd saved, waited, and did enjoy our time, but there's no place like home.

NOT to say we wanted to get back into the saddle. Every so often I have to have an attitude re-adjustment regarding the stress God allows my husband to endure for the sake of a paycheck. Of course, it isn't just for a paycheck. This is where God wants him at this place in time. Which also means that dealing with HIS stress is where God also wants ME at this place in time. I just finished re-reading a book (and it's sequel) that really affirmed for me that I must let God use Larry how HE plans, not according to what I think is ENOUGH! God is in control!

Today I worked with 5 other ladies in our church assembling upholstering

fabric samples into a quilt, backed with a 2 1/2 yd piece of fleece. We have 3 mostly completed and 10 more underway. Our plan is to pass them on for distribution to the homeless of our community. I can't imagine sleeping outside as the weather is chilling down -- I'm so grateful for a house and good working furnace. But the weather isn't all that daunts them. I pray that God takes our efforts -- namely, the quilts -- and reminds these people, whomever they are, that He is with them and cares about them. We'll work more tomorrow, but hope to get them made and distributed asap.

Larry is sick. Flu probably. The guy seated next to him on the plane, coughed for 6 hours. He's still working, still getting up at 5 (better than 3 AM), still working nights and weekends. -- God is in control.

Can't wait to see the boys (Thanksgiving) -- AND the big kids! I brought Legos home on the plane for them. It is SO hard it is to decide which items to buy for grandkids when you want to buy them all! Fortunately, I can't make Legos! Ha!

I taught 5th gr sp ed Math and Science yesterday. It was a good day, two great sets of kids, but with the second set, especially, I could see how challenging it really is for them to complete a task. Most of them could grasp the tasks -- some could not. And every one of them looked like everyday, normal kids. A couple are handicapped by their situations. I wonder about the others. I feel for them all -- and admire the teachers. I admire teachers who deal with kids every day--and love them.

If I could ask one prayer for the world, it would be that we would give more grace to one another. Grace for the person who ticks us off. Grace for the appointment who forgets us. Grace for the person who endangers us because they were careless. Grace for the person who didn't know better. Grace when I don't feel like giving it. Grace when I feel I don't have any more to give. Because I've been the one who has needed grace for every one of these situations!

Blessings! Have a BRIGHT day!